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THERE ARE MORE WOMEN IN POLITICS IN UGANDA AND SOUTH AFRICA TODAY THAN IN MANY MORE DEVELOPED DEMOCRACIES. THIS SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENT OWES TO EXPLICIT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION INTERVENTIONS IN POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES TO FAVOR WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION. THIS ARTICLE ANALYZES THESE MEASURES FOR THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN BRINGING MORE WOMEN INTO GOVERNMENT, AND FOR THEIR IMPACT ON THE PERCEIVED LEGITIMACY OF WOMEN IN POWER.

Introduction -- An archeology of knowledge on securitization in Africa : from Eurocentrism to racism -- Ontological security and West Africa -- A new securitization framework outside of the West : the securitization-neopatrimonialism nexus -- Liberia : neo-patrimonial statehood and securitization processes -- Sierra Leone : neo-patrimonial political culture and securitization processes -- Health security in West Africa : from HIV/AIDS, EDV/Ebola to COVID-19 -- Conclusion.

Introduction : changes and challenges in African media / Helge R(c)ınning & Kristin Skare Orgeret -- Strengths and weaknesses : political change and the media in Africa since the 1990s / Helge R(c)ınning -- A decade in the SABC : continuity and change within the public broadcaster / Kristin Skare Orgeret -- Relevance and popularity : debating public broadcasting and tabloidisation in South Africa / Wallace Chuma -- Three decades of public television and political power in Zimbabwe : 1980-2009 / Winston Mano -- Media, politics and power : re-gearing policy and propaganda in crisis Zimbabwe / Sarah Chiumbu & Dumisani Moyo -- New ICTs and social change in southern Africa / Martin Nkosi Ndlela -- The influence of the media : audiences and impact in Mozambique / Helge R(c)ınning -- Bridging digital divides : exploring the principles of the community multimedia centre model in Uganda / Carol Azungi Dralega -- A critical look at the digital diaspora : perspectives from Ethiopia / Terje S. Skjerdal

In this paper, I argue that our conception of knowledge cannot be separated from the bodies that are involved in its creation. Resisting the decolonization of the curriculum and how we come to know goes cheek by jowl with which bodies are acceptable and which are unpalatable in higher education. It is not just particular knowledges that are therefore reviled but black bodies that signify those knowledges—that have to fight to belong or are ejected. The paper focuses on critical moments when high-profile black bodies have faced expulsion from the Universities of Cape Town, Witwatersrand, and North-West to illustrate the relationship between what I term "reviled bodies" and "knowledges" in higher education. It suggests that it is no coincidence that "recalcitrant" black bodies are expelled from those universities that assign no value to indigenous ways of knowing. Finally, the paper posits that geo- and body politics of scholarship should be advanced to ensure that Southern and black bodies are at the center of the academy.

Foreign military intervention has had a profound impact on post-colonial African history and politics. Interventions have destabilized borderlands, overthrown governments, and taken a devastating toll on populations. Emizet F. Kisangani and Jeffrey Pickering advance a new theoretical framework and combine quantitative, qualitative, and historical methods to shed fresh light on these important but understudied events. Their detailed analysis brings understanding to supportive and hostile interventions and to interventions by former colonial states, non-colonial foreign actors, and African countries. Kisangani and Pickering also analyse military incursions into ungoverned territories and lands engulfed in civil war. Showcasing a variety of examples from the Second Congo War to the Ethiopian-Eritrean conflict, the book offers a rich and accessible examination of military intervention on the continent.

In this article I outline two broad sets of changes characterising the South African higher education landscape. The first relates to, among other things, structural changes (such as mergers and incorporations), the reorganisation of teaching programmes (influenced by the mode 2 knowledge), and the introduction of performativity regimes, most notably a quality assurance body for higher education, the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC). These changes might be understood as outcomes of forces associated with the ascendancy of neoliberal politics and forces linked to a rapidly changing and globally interconnected world. The second relates to the need to transform higher education in South Africa so as to overcome legacies of apartheid as captured in policies that have been developed to redress past inequalities, including discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation and so on. It is in this area in particular that challenges remain, as reflected in the Soudien Report. I suggest in this article that both sets of changes relate to a broader crisis – a crisis of humanism. Moreover, education might be implicated in this crisis. And so I suggest that we might need to (re)think (trans)formation in (higher) education by replacing the term 'education' with the term pedagogy, where pedagogy is understood as a transformative event concerned with the person becoming present in context (Todd 2010).

Our understanding of educational processes is often obscured by ideological considerations. This is very well illustrated in the common term, 'assimilation', used to characterise European colonial policy towards Africa. Thus it is often asserted that French authorities promoted the emergence of a class of 'black Frenchmen', with values, aspirations, and cognitive styles analogous to those of European educational institutions. In contrast, the British have been viewed as repudiating such a notion in their system of indirect rule, which attempted accommodation with Africa and aimed at perpetuating African existing social organisations.

1. African solutoins for African problems and shared R2P / Hany Besada, Ariane Goetz, and Karolina Werner -- 2. Through the lens of European integration theory : African peace and security architecture as a framework in transition / Siegmar Schmidt -- 3. Hopes and challenges for the peace and security architecture of the African Union / Jakkie Cilliers -- 4. From the multilateralism of states to the multilateralism of peoples : the roles of the African Union and the United Nations in supporting security sector reform / Adedeji Ebo and Kristiana Powell -- 5. The European Union (EU) and the emerging African peace and security architecture / Stefan Ganzle and Sven Grimm -- 6. R2P and the IGAD sub-region : IGAD's contribution to Africa's emerging R2P-oriented security culture / John Siebert -- 7. Complementary approaches to peacekeeping? The African Union and United Nations in Burundi / Devon Curtis and Gilbert Nibigirwe -- 8. Partnerships for peacebuilding in Burundi : some lessons learned / Youssef Mahmoud -- 9. The DDRR and SSR process in Liberia : prospects and challenges / Thomas Jaye and John Mark Pokoo -- 10. The Darfur conflict and the responsibility to protect : towards a sustainable peace / Ayesha Kajee -- 11. Steady but uneven progress : the operationalization of the African Standby Force / Benedikt Franke -- 12. A 'public' duty? Building citizen focused accountability and oversight mechanisms in global peace and security governance / Michael Hammer.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Political Thought of African American Resistance -- 1. David Walker, Frederick Douglass, and the Abolitionist Democratic Vision -- 2. Ida B. Wells, the Antilynching Movement, and the Politics of Seeing -- 3. Huey Newton, the Black Panthers, and the Decolonization of America -- 4. Angela Davis, Prison Abolition, and the End of the American Carceral State -- Conclusion: The Future of Resistance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index